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What’s inside the September 2023 issue of the MEED Business Review Magazine?
Decarbonisation has increased the stakes for nuclear energy despite the perceived risks.
With the Middle East and North Africa (Mena) region set to register a rise of at least 30 per cent in power generation capacity by 2030, a strategy is required to advance energy security while reducing carbon emissions and fossil-fuel dependence.
If hydrocarbons are to be scaled back and battery energy storage remains expensive or untested, nuclear is an obvious solution.
Nuclear energy’s benefits have been consistently recognised in the Middle East.
Iran, despite sanctions, has pressed ahead with its nuclear power projects. On the other side of the Gulf, Abu Dhabi signed contracts in 2009 with a South Korean consortium to build its first nuclear power project in Barakah.
More recently, Egypt has started work on its own nuclear project at El-Dabaa.
More projects are planned. Most notably, Saudi Arabia is advancing early plans for its nuclear power projects.
In the latest issue of MEED Business Review, MEED’s energy editor Jennifer Aguinaldo looks at the case for adding nuclear to the energy mix and analyses the progress being made as the Mena region pushes for a nuclear future.
She also discusses small modular reactors and their importance in offsetting concerns about capital expenditure, construction delays and spent-fuel reprocessing.
This month’s exclusive 14-page market focus, meanwhile, examines the ambitious plans laid out by Kuwait’s new cabinet as it enters office with an expansionary budget and programme of strategic projects.
MEED’s latest issue also includes a comprehensive report on the future of engineering, procurement and construction in a sustainable world.
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MEED’s Editorial Team:
Editor – Colin Foreman
Features & Analysis Editor – John Bambridge
Energy & Technology Editor – Jennifer Aguinaldo
Oil & Gas Editor – Indrajit Sen
Oil & Gas Reporter – Wil Crisp
Commercial Content Editor – Mrudvi Bakshi
Commercial Content Editor – Sarah Rizvi
Tenders Writer – Jane Bishop
Head of Production – Marianne Makdisi
Sub Editor – Sneha Abraham
Graphic Designer – Rey Delante
